CVE-2023-46837

xen: Arm provides multiple helpers to clean & invalidate the cache for a given region

CVE-2023-46837 is fixed in xen on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2023-46837, released January 5, 2024. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.

Routine
CVSS
3.3
low
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0024
15th percentile

Arm provides multiple helpers to clean & invalidate the cache for a given region. This is, for instance, used when allocating guest memory to ensure any writes (such as the ones during scrubbing) have reached memory before handing over the page to a guest. Unfortunately, the arithmetics in the helpers can overflow and would then result to skip the cache cleaning/invalidation. Therefore there is no guarantee when all the writes will reach the memory. This undefined behavior was meant to be addressed by XSA-437, but the approach was not sufficient.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
xen · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 4.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1~deb12u1 DEBIAN-CVE-2023-46837 Jan 5, 2024
xen · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 4.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2023-46837 Jan 5, 2024
xen · Debian 14 4.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2023-46837 Jan 5, 2024

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